Friday, August 9, 2013
To Ham or not to Ham? Is there even a question?
Last night was our last trip to Stratford (insert sad awwww noises here). We went to go see Hamlet, the last play I had to read for my Shakespeare in performance class. A lot of people on the trip are getting kind of sick (think healthy thoughts Emily!) so it was a bit quiet without my friends Yesenia and Sarah. Also, on the way to Stratford, our bus broke down. I didn't really mind though, we had a little break and got to Stratford around 5pm. This gave us time to only eat before the 7pm show but that was OK because Stratford's the kind of town where once you've seen one Shakespeare memorial/pilgrimage, you've seen them all. We did go to this nice restaurant for dinner called The Garrick. It's supposedly the oldest pub in Stratford! It was pretty good (I just got a burger and chips) but a little on the pricier side- like a lot of things in Stratford, actually! The play itself I thought was great! It's a long play and I was exhausted from, I don't even know what I was just tired, but the acting was superb. The actor who played Hamlet was melancholy, funny and temperamental all at the same time, everything a Hamlet should be in my opinion. We all slept on the bus ride home (weird that Cambridge feels like home know and I'm leaving next week) because we were all pretty beat. I'll be saying this for the next six or seven days but I still can't beleive I only have ONE WEEK left, aaaahhhhhh!!! I feel like it was just last week that I went to Stratford for Titus Andronicus then gotup early to go to Bath the next day, craziness! Like Stratford last time, I also had to get up early this morning for an awesome-exciting and emotionally, physically and electronically draining day in London/Watford. I won't go into details now because I'm super tired and need to go to bed but a lot of geeking out was involved and I may or may not have cried several times today (out of joy)!
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